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The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East Division. Founded in 1901 as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the team's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912.
From 1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. [1] The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are sometimes nicknamed the "BoSox", a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the "ChiSox"), the "Crimson Hose", and "the Olde Towne Team". [2] Most fans simply refer to them as the Sox.
Note that these records reflect statistics only for a player's tenure with the Red Sox. For example, David Ortiz hit a total of 541 home runs during his MLB career; 483 with the Red Sox and 58 with the Minnesota Twins [1] —thus, Ted Williams' 521 home runs, all hit with the Red Sox, is the team record.
Hearing Nick Sogard is getting called up to the Boston Red Sox and could be in line to make his Major League debut. In 89 games, the 26-year-old infielder has hit 12 homers and accumulated 54 RBI ...
The Red Sox won the next three games to become the first and only MLB team to win a seven-game postseason series after losing the first three games. [45] The Red Sox then faced the St. Louis Cardinals, the team to whom they had lost in 1946 and 1967, and led throughout the series, winning in a four-game sweep. [46]
He then scored on an RBI single by Bill Mueller which sent the game to extra innings. The Red Sox went on to win the game on a two-run home run by David Ortiz in the 12th inning. In Game 5, the Red Sox were again down late (by the score of 4–2) as a result of Derek Jeter's bases-clearing triple. But the Sox struck back in the eighth, as Ortiz ...
[352] to air an exclusive package of 18 Sunday morning game broadcasts, [353] beginning with a May 8, 2022, broadcast of a Chicago White Sox/Boston Red Sox game [354] at Fenway Park. The games, all of which were hosted by teams in the Eastern Time Zone had, in 2022, scheduled start times of 11:30 a.m. ET for the first six broadcasts (May 8 ...
The sweep has been dubbed "Boston Massacre II" in reference to the 1978 four-game sweep of the Red Sox by the Yankees at Fenway. [315] On September 28, Yankees first baseman and former Red Sox draft pick Mark Teixeira hit the final home run of his career, which was a walk-off grand slam off Boston Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly.